[QScintilla] No more license exceptions?

[Marc Gronle]

I would also prefer the clear consistency with the Qt license, hence, LGPL
& Commercial.

Marc

2016-03-11 14:42 GMT+01:00 <agarny at hellix.com>:

> On 2016-03-11 14:33, Phil Thompson wrote:
>
>> On 11 Mar 2016, at 1:09 pm, Marc Gronle
>> > we were also very suprised to hear about that change in the licensing
>> > without any notification in the release messages on your website.
>> > Without the mail from Alan we would propably never have realized this
>> > important change. Our software is LGPL licensed and would also not be
>> > able to link against new versions of QScintilla. We would also really
>> > appreciate if any kind of exception allowing this could be
>> re-introduced.
>>
>> Apologies for not making it more clear.
>>
>> Unlike the other licenses there is no problem with you linking a pure
>> GPL QScintilla with your LGPL code. It's up to you whether you want to
>> accept the additional committments that that implies.
>>
>> Qt is moving to either GPL & commercial or LGPL & commercial depending
>> on the nature of the product and I want to have things similarly
>> simple. There is an argument (especially given the previous
>> exceptions) that QScintilla should be aligned with Qt (and therefore
>> be LGPL) rather than, say, QtCharts. I will give that serious
>> consideration.
>>
>
> Thanks Phil. LGPL & Commercial would certainly be my preference too.
>
> Alan
>
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